Am 09.05.2011 01:38, schrieb Chris Boulton: > Speaking from a purely "part"/blob view, there are better solutions than a > database for storing such information. > An RDBMS is great for 95% of what DBMail does, but mail parts could be stored > better. Doing so allows you to scale > different parts of your system - I can guarantee that it's going to be more > difficult to scale databases with > massive blobs as opposed to just simple sets of relational data.
and how will you do replication/backups consistent if you have half of the data in some "nosql"? one point to scale the system is to have fallbacks for readonly data needed for the MTA, making backups of a temporary stopped salve without interrupt the main services and THIS is the real strength of dbmail
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